Export Selected Fields of Selected Contacts to hCard
hCard gradually got
acceptances from Web developer communities, as some major players like Google,
Yahoo and Firefox etc. showed
their supports to hCard.
To export selected contacts to hCard, do the following steps:
1. Select contacts from the People List or the search window, and run
function at [Main menu -> Tools -> Export Contacts with XSLT]
2. Select an XSLT file for example
hCard.xsl.
3. Define a HTML file to save, for example hCard.html.
4. Copy some results in hCard.html to your production web pages.
You may modify
hCard.xsl according to your own privacy policy. A privacy policy related to
publishing hCard generally consists of two items:
- Which contacts to publish. For example you would only select some of
your co-workers.
- Which fields to publish. For example, you would pickup only the work
phone numbers and Email address
hCard serves for 2 types of applications:
1. Give web spiders semantic meanings to mine contact info.
2. Assist a Web Browser to highlight contact info, and make easy to import
contact info from a web page.
You may want to test the correctness of the XSLT file using a Web browser
like Mozilla Firefox. You may download an add-on
Operator. This
program can pick up hCard clusters in a Web page and list these contacts in the
Tool bar area. So you may export contact info embedded into local vCard files,
then you may verify whether the vCard files contain info you want to publish.
If you want to publish some contact info in your MS Outlook, Mozilla
Thunderbird, or Eudora etc., you may first import them to Open Contacts and then
transform them to HTML.
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